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Apple criticism grows as 'accidental activists' make their point
The Guardian
Mark Shields, a communications worker in Washington DC, did not intend to become an activist calling for Apple to clean up its act over allegations of brutal labour abuses in its Chinese supplier network. But, listening to a recent radio show on the ...
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The Guardian
Connecting the Dots: Mapping Apple's Development and Manufacturing Process
New York Times (blog)
In this lesson, students examine reporting about the labor conditions in Chinese factories that manufacture Apple products as well as the impact on the American economy of Apple's decision to manufacture parts overseas. Materials | iPhone or other ...
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New York Times (blog)
Apple Passes HP in "PC" Shipments--or Did It?
PCWorld
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Jan 31, 2012 10:19 AM Apple iPadApple knocked HP off the throne as number one PC maker during the last three months of 2011, according to a report by market watcher Canalys. The firm reported that 120 million PCs were ...
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Apple presses pause on high-def music, says Neil Young
CNN
(CNN) -- Apple's ambition to improve the fidelity of music downloads has diminished since the death of founder Steve Jobs, according to singer-songwriter Neil Young. Apple consulted with the influential musician, along with many others in the music ...
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Apple chip designer Arm Holdings beats forecasts
The Guardian
Apple's favourite chip designer beat the consensus profit forecast of £55m, and said full-year revenues had risen 21% to £492m, with profit before tax for the year up 37% to £230m. Total fourth-quarter revenues rose 21% to £138m.
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Apple seeks appeal in iPad trademark case in China
CNET
by Josh Lowensohn January 31, 2012 11:51 AM PST Follow @Josh Apple wants a Chinese court to take another look at its iPad-related trademark lawsuit against a local company that was thrown out last month. IDG News reports that Apple filed an appeal with ...
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Apple Fans More Likely to Turn a Blind Eye Than Boycott
TechNewsWorld
By Erika Morphy There have been calls from many quarters to boycott Apple over labor conditions at the plants in China that turn out its products, but there's not much indication that consumers are hearing them. "Apple's products are symbols of status ...
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Apple Gaining Some Breathing Room As Most Valuable Company
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Kevin Kingsbury With Apple shares setting yet-another all-time high today in the wake of last week's blowout quarterly report and Exxon Mobil sliding following this morning's middling 4Q results, the market-cap gap between the two has ballooned to ...
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Apple shares hit new high, company takes large lead in battle for most ...
San Jose Mercury News
By Jeremy C. Owens Apple (AAPL) stock, still feeling the effects of one of the most successful quarters in history, hit another new high Tuesday and the tech giant increased its lead over Exxon for the title of most valuable company in the United ...
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Apple regains top spot in smartphone market
MSN Money
By Trefis on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 1:34 PM Apple's (AAPL) fiscal first-quarter earnings produced remarkable results. The computer giant not only exceeded its own revenue estimates by almost 25%, but also those of most analysts as well.
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Apple, the media and the 'education crisis' that's forcing these poor ...
Chicago Tribune (blog)
Without a change in tax and tariff-free trade policies that economically incentivize companies like Apple to keep moving production to cheap labor havens overseas, the only "education" that will bring those jobs back is the kind that indoctrinates ...
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Apple & Foxconn: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
EBN
For the sake of argument, let's say Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), after suffering criticism for the actions of one of its business partners, threw down the gauntlet and told Foxconn Electronics Inc. it had to change its labor practices.
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Why I'd pay Apple more to give iPad factory workers a break
Register
By Matt Asay • Get more from this author Open ... and Shut Last quarter Apple churned out extraordinary profits: $13.06bn of them. But according to a New York Times article, Apple achieved these amazing profits on the backs of Chinese workers, ...
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Is Apple's Thunderbolt Truly Lightning-Fast?
Popular Mechanics
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show, we wondered aloud whether this would be the year that Apple's Thunderbolt interface would finally gain some traction. But PM Senior Tech Editor Glenn Derene's tests with Thunderbolt gear show that ...
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Popular Mechanics
An Apple chart for Mr. Market
Fortune
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt January 31, 2012: 3:23 PM ET "I want to scream every time I see or hear another one of those ridiculous claims that Mr. Market doesn't understand Apple (AAPL), doesn't respect it, doesn't get it, etc." an investment analyst named ...
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Apple engineers 'heavy into' near-field communication for iPhone 5, rumor says
Appolicious
Rumor has it, Apple is working hard on bringing NFC to the next iPhone, expected to drop this summer. A little background for the unfamiliar: near-field communication is a short-range broadcast technology that would allow your smartphone to interact ...
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Apple's Siri Goes Hollywood, Lands on Flaming Lips Track
PC Magazine
Apple's iPhone 4S voice assistant is featured alongside Erykah Badu on a new track from the Flaming Lips called "Now I Understand." On the song, Siri is heard addressing frontman Wayne Coyne. "Wayne, I don't understand the moon, the stars, ...
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Apple's Siri Struggles To Understand the Scots
Slate Magazine
But now the Scots might have to add one more baffled interlocutor—this one not even human—to the list: Siri, the voice-activated virtual assistant in Apple's latest iPhone. The Los Angeles Times reports that many of the Scots who rushed to buy the ...
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Slate Magazine
Say No to Dividends -- Apple Needs Its Cash for These Bruising Battles
Forbes
With Apple on a roll, the drumbeat is growing for it to start paying dividends out of its $100 billion (and growing) cash hoard. An analyst at Reuters, for example, just called for Apple to pay a huge special dividend and regularly pay out half of its ...
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Forbes
Jennifer Lopez's Big Apple Cruise with Casper
The Gossip Girls
The "On the Floor" songstress was accompanied by boyfriend, Casper Smart, while looking pretty in a pink coat paired with pink heels as she hopped into her chauffeured vehicle to cruise down the Big Apple streets. The NYC sighting comes as it was just ...
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Apple takes PR lumps in deaths report
O'Dwyer's PR News (blog)
A January New York Times report detailing conditions at an Apple manufacturing plant in Shenzhen, China, offered a damning assessment of alleged labor violations committed by companies the Cupertino, CA computer giant hires to manufacture its line of ...
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Zamboni driver in Apple Valley accused of being drunk while resurfacing ice
Minneapolis Star Tribune
A Zamboni driver in Apple Valley is accused of resurfacing the ice while drunk, police said Tuesday. The 34-year-old Apple Valley man was "unsteady on his feet and smelled of an alcoholic beverage" while operating the machine at the Hayes Arena, ...
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Good January for stocks...Trillion dollar deficit...Who's minding the Apple store?
NECN
NEW YORK (AP) — Looking to expand Apple stores around the world, Apple has stretched across the ocean to hire the CEO of a British electronics chain to head its successful retail operations. John Browett will become Apple's top retail executive on ...
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